Yongning Village

Yongning ancient village is located in the north of "former residence of Chen cixue" in qianmei, Longdu, Chenghai City, Shantou City, Guangdong Province. Chen Huixian got rich by sailing. It was first built between the 43rd and 48th years (1704-1709) of Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, then continued by his son Chen tingguang and completed in the 10th year of Yongzheng reign (1732). It covers an area of 10333 square meters. The village integrates all kinds of Chaoshan traditional dwellings, forming an interconnected residential complex. It has a certain significance to study the architectural form of Chaoshan in the early Qing Dynasty.

Yongning ancient village

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Yongning Village generally refers to Yongning ancient village

Yongning ancient village is located in the north of "former residence of Chen cixue" in qianmei, Longdu, Chenghai City, Shantou City, Guangdong Province. Chen Huixian got rich by sailing. It was first built between the 43rd and 48th years (1704-1709) of Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, then continued by his son Chen tingguang and completed in the 10th year of Yongzheng reign (1732). It covers an area of 10333 square meters. The village integrates all kinds of Chaoshan traditional dwellings, forming an interconnected residential complex. It has a certain significance to study the architectural form of Chaoshan in the early Qing Dynasty.

Yongning ancient village is the third batch of municipal cultural relics protection units in Shantou City.

Brief introduction

Yongning ancient village is Yongning Village. It is located in qianmei village, Longdu, Chenghai, Shantou City, Guangdong Province. It was built in 1732 by Chen tingguang, the ancestor of Chen family, who was the Secretary of the cabinet of the Qing Dynasty. It covers an area of 10333 square meters. The village is built on the low-lying land commonly known as "Ding navel". It sits in the southwest to the northeast, facing the Lotus Mountain in the distance, surrounded by ditches and ponds. In front of the village, the pool is clear, the lotus peak is reflected, the Ming hall is open, and many waters gather. It is considered as the best place for traditional "Feng Shui".

Yongning ancient village was announced as the third batch of municipal cultural relics protection units by Shantou Municipal People's Government in 2005.

Architecture Overview

Yongning Village covers a total area of 10000 square meters. It faces the Lianhua Mountain at the junction of Chaocheng and Rao. The village is a square one, which is composed of three high walls and one low wall. The wall is 8 meters high and 0.8 meters thick. Inside the village, the front is high and the back is low. The front is Huicheng and the back is residence. Three rows of traditional halls are built in the middle, all of which are "four point gold" cottage buildings on Xieshan mountain. The houses built on both sides and behind the village walls are of two-story structure, overlooking the whole village, which looks like horseshoe. There are more than 210 halls in the village.

There is "Yimen" in front of the ancient village. These two words come from the inscription "Yilu" and "limen" on the gate eyebrow of Yongning Village. Chen tingguang, a former American scholar who built Yongning Village, gave his posterity a lesson to his descendants. He hoped that their descendants would understand that "etiquette and righteousness are the road of life and the door of life.". There is an old stone pavilion at the gate of the village. In the past, it was a newspaper kiosk. It was built during the Anti Japanese war. It was used to publicize the Anti Japanese War and save the nation and post notices. After several renovations of old houses and renovation of dilapidated houses, the village has been reluctant to demolish them as a witness of history and educate young people to defend their country.

The whole ancient village is of rectangular structure. It is built according to the layout of "Sima Trailer", which is a typical style of Chaoshan ancient residential buildings. The village covers an area of nearly ten thousand square meters. It faces northwest from southwest. In front of it is a vast Fengshui pool, where geese and ducks can swim freely. The wall of sanmianzhai is 8 meters high, which can prevent flood, waterlogging and theft. There are three gates, one front and two back. In the middle of the gate, there are three words "Yongning Village" and the words "Yongzheng decade". The two door pages respectively read "Yilu" and "limen". Entering the village gate, we can see three typical "four point gold" hard hilltop bungalows side by side. In front is a Kuocheng, has the basketball court, several children are playing the ball, appears very quiet.

The main hall of Yongning Village is zhonghandi. In this Zhonghan third entrance building, there is a plaque in the front hall, which says "be kind and give". On the right wall of the front hall, there is a portrait of Chen tingguang, the owner of the ancient village, and his wife, Yu miaodee. The following portrait briefly introduces Chen tingguang's life in the form of comic strips.

Humanistic characteristics

In the middle of the Zhonghan Hall of Yongning Village, there is a plaque with the words "heavy banquet and deer crowing" on it. It is understood that the "feast of Lu Ming" and the "banquet of Lu Ming" is a celebration ceremony of the imperial examination system of the Qing Dynasty for the candidates who have passed the imperial examination for 60 years. In the 32nd year of Kangxi (1693 AD), Chen tingguang, who was 22 years old at that time, had to go to the Luming banquet for the imperial examination of zhongkuyou. 60 years later, he went to the Luming banquet specially designed for xinkeju to celebrate his longevity. Su Chang, then the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, presented a couplet to 82 year old Chen tingguang: "when we meet with banquets to climb Guangxi, we ask when we are already fishing." The layout of the back hall of zhonghandi is very simple. There are several frames on both sides of the wall, in which some historical allusions of qianmei are recorded.

On both sides of Zhonghan are Xianmo alleys, where dozens of dilapidated huts are left. These huts are filled with a kind of simple atmosphere, with the dust of history, floating with heavy desolation. The couplet on the left side of the lane reads: "Donglu Yayan's poetry and calligraphy are polite, Xijing's legacy is filial piety and Li Tian"; the couplet on the right side of the lane reads: "to be diligent and thrifty, to protect the world, to be strong, to be virtuous and to have a foundation." There is also a well preserved octagonal stone well in the southeast of the ancient village. It is said that there are wells in the well, and the well water is unfathomable and inexhaustible. At that time, the living water source of the whole village depended on this well. Behind the ancient well, there is a stone step, along which you can climb the gate tower of the village and look out the window. The gate tower of the village was the watchman tower in the old days.

Architectural history

Yongning ancient village was built between the 43rd and 48th year of Kangxi (1704-1709) and the 10th year of Yongzheng (1732). Between the 43rd and 48th years (1704-1709) of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Huixian got rich by sailing and doing business, and then built Yongning Village. After Chen Huixian died, it was continued by his son Chen tingguang and completed in 1732. He inscribed the name of the village and made a stone plaque, which was embedded in the east gate of the village.

Chen tingguang was born in qianmei village on August 30 of the lunar calendar in 1672. He was gifted and intelligent as a child. He studied hard. In the 32nd year of Kangxi, he passed the Kuiyou imperial examination. Later, he was appointed to Zan County of Zhili (now Hebei Province) as a magistrate. He was known as Chen Qingtian for his honesty, promoting advantages and eliminating disadvantages, and loving the people like a son. Although Chen tingguang worked in the hinterland of the Central Plains, he often cared about his hometown and sent people to know about the living conditions of the villagers in his hometown. When he heard that the villagers in his hometown were often attacked by wild animals and plundered by thieves, he went all over the city walls, gates and ancient villages. He discussed the design with Guo Yufan, the national master of Kyoto, and designed a plan to build the village. Later, he entrusted his relatives to build Yongning Village, so as to relieve the worries of the villagers in his hometown and let them enjoy peace forever. Construction began in 1722. In 1732, after Chen tingguang resigned and returned to Zizi, Yongning Village was completed.

historical significance

Yongning Village integrates all kinds of traditional residential buildings in Chaoshan, forming a connected residential building group. Its layout is very unique, not only different from the round village, but also different from the general scattered houses. It is a square village built in the low-lying area of the plain, with wall buildings on the outside and orderly bungalows and eight fire lanes on the inside, forming a completely closed compound with high outside and low inside. In general, it looks like a huge "Sima Trailer" style residential building surrounded by four high walls. It has the special functions of flood control, waterlogging prevention, drought prevention and burglary prevention. It is of certain value to study the architectural form and history of Chaoshan area in the early Qing Dynasty.

Address: qianmei village, Longdu Town, Chenghai District, Shantou City

Longitude: 113.03858

Latitude: 35.658384

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